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This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29, 2025

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Cartoon shows President Trump dressed as a doctor getting ready to give Uncle Sam an injection of disinfectant
Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)

It’s About One Thing: Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule

E.J. Dionne Jr. The New Republic
The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. It's time to shed flawed assumptions about who Trump is and make sense of what he is doing.

Carceral Imperialism, Project 2025, and the Enemy of Progress

Lyle C. May Prism
Whether in the past or present, imperialism that is reframed in patriotic language does not make it less brutal to those who lose their land, liberty, and lives—or have their identities folded into American conquest.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Wasn’t Always Celebrated

Joseph Mogul Jacobin
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. But at the time, many Poles watched — or cheered — as the ghetto burned. The parallels with Gaza are hard to ignore.

Sunday Science: STARTALK When Black Holes Collide, With Nergis Mavalvala

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Harrison Greebaum, Nergis Mavalvala StarTalk
Ripples in spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Harrison Greenbaum explore black hole collisions, quantum tricks, and how gravitational waves can help us uncover the early universe with MIT physicist and LIGO researcher Nergis Mavalvala.

CTU Members Ratify New Contract With 97% Approval

Nader Issa, Sarah Karp | WBEZ and Michael Puente | WBEZ Chicago Sun-Times
The contract is the CTU’s first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class size limits, gives pay raises and could add hundreds of new staff members.